"That's why I should have been here," Lee said quietly with the lift of a shoulder. He sometimes felt like he had abandoned everyone when he'd left, but how would he have felt if he'd just left his sisters to care for their sick mother?
One of those damned if you do, damned if you don't type situations, he thought.
"I feel a bit lost, not knowing everything that's been going on. Everyone I'm real close to has been busy getting over that sickness or whatever that was here."